Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-12-09
TREASURER's REPORT.
Appropriations Required for tho
Next Fiscal Year.
Amount Required for NIL Purposes OF the
Government IL $500, $3.50, ,703-Circu-
lar to Postmastors Regarding
Advertised Letters.


APPROPRIATIONS WANTED.
WAsuIEGToN, Dec. 6.-Tho Secretary Of
tho Treasury yesterday transmitted 10 Con
gress the estimates Of appropriations re-
quircd for tho fiscal year ending Juno 10,
1889 The total amount estimated Us re.
quircd for all purposes of the government
is $500 $50, T93, which is 81, ,344, 9g9 more than
tho sum called for in the estimates submit
ted last year, and sl6 s9g, ,406 more than the
aggregate Of appropriations tor tho present
fiscal year. The estimates for 1889 are made
up Of the following items; Legislative,
t3,272,lll; executives, SIS, So, 735; judicial,
ti22, 200; foreign intercourse, sl,9is, ,065;
military, t25, ,692,574; naval, $2l, ,34S, 032; In
dian AFFAIRS s., 4SS, ,G91; PENSIONS $40 3i2, 400;
public works, $3J,0Sl, ,9S4; postal service,
81, ,494, 400; miscellaneous, t26, ,O67 S06; per-
manent annual appropriations, Sll5, 500 70S.
There is an increase ovor last year in the
estimates for the executive, judicial, for.
| eign intercourse, naval establishment, pen.
sions, public works and miscellaneous, and
n decrease in the estimates for the legisla-
tive, military establishment, Indian affairs,
postal service and in the permanent annual
| appropriations.
Tho superintendent Of tho dead letter
office, Postotlice Department, has prepared
q circular letter which will be sent TO all
postmasters directing tho strict inforcc-
ment of section 800 Of tho postal laws and
| regulations. This section makes 1t impera.
| tive upon postmasters to advertise in q
| newspaper a manuscript list of Bon-dolv-
cred letters. IL also requires tho charge
and collection OF one cent in all cases where
n letter has been published, whether tho
list has been published in newspaper
either gratuitously or at one cent for each
| letter or less sum, or whether the publca-
tion was merely by written list posted in
some public place" In all cases the post
master must aflix and cancel one-cent
| postage due stamp as evidence of its deliv-
cry. In postohices, other than those of The
free delivery class, the postage due stamp
shall not be affixed until tho delivery Of tho
letter. This clause OF the postal laws has
not heretofore been been strictly inforced.
1t is estimated that the postal revenues
will be increased largely by the strict in
forccment OF this law.
A decision was rendered by the United
States Supreme Court yesterday afternoon
in the Virginia hdbedS corpus cases of At
torncy General Ayrcs and Commemorative
Attorneys Scott and McCabe, who were
imprisoned by order of Judge Bond, of the
United States Circuit Court, for disobedi
ence to n restraining order forbidding
them to bring suits for the collection Of
thAco III cases WHcTe lcHutTS HdNe UGtu
been made by tax receivable coupons cut
from State bonds. This court, in n very
long and elaborate opinion by JUS
tice Matthews, holds that the suit
in which Judge Bond issued the
restraining order in the Circuit Court,
although nominally suit against indivdu-
ais, is in reality a suit against the State OF
Virginia and rs such forbidden by the
Eleventh amendment to the Federal consti-
tuition that the United States Circuit Court
had, therefore, no authority to entertain
such suit; that in so doing and in issuing
restraining order to prevent the officers of
the State from discharging their duties
under the laws of the State, Judge Bond
was acting without constitutional warrant,
and that the restraining order and all sub
sequent proceedings under it, including
the arrest and imprisonment of the petit
tioncrs, were illegal and without authority.
The court, therefore, directs that the peti.
TONERS, Attorney General Ayers and Com.
monwealths Attorney Scott and McCabe
be at once discharged.
The opinion, which is that of the whole
court without dissenting voice, sus,ains
The State of Virginia at all nts, and vir-
tually declares that State, as a political
sovereignty, cannot be sued nor coerced in
the Federal courts, either by an action
brought against her by name or by an ac-
tion brought against her officers in their
official capacity, The court declares that
the eleventh amendment establishes dis
tinction between contracts made by indi-
viduals with each other and contracts made
by individuals with State. The latter
class cannot be enforced by the remedies
used to enforce the former-that is, by
suits in the United States courts, and they
are, therefore, without sanction except in
so far as such sanction is given 10 them by
the honor and good faith of the contract
ing State. Such State may consent to be
sued in its own courts or in the Federal
courts for breach of contract, but it may at
any time withdraw such consent, and re-
sumo its sovereignty, and it cannot then be
judicially coerced at the request OF an in
dvidual.
A number of representatives of the wool
growers and wool merchants of the country
are now in the city, and last evening a
meeting was held for the purpose of taking
action upon the needs of that industry for
tariff Legislation by Congress. There are
three separate interests involved, those of
the wool growers, the wool dealers and TIE
wool manufacturers. MIR. William NJ. Cow
den, tho secretary of the Ohio Wool Grow
ers Association, thus outlined the objects
of this conference: "lYe want" he said,
70 tariff high enough to enable us to live.
We want this industry, so far as profits arc
concerned, placed on a level with other
agricultural industries. The tariff is now
too low, especially under the present rul-
ings of the Treasury Department, which
let's in too much foreign wool. We do not
propose to dictate to Congress what the
rate shall be, but we do propose to make
such representation of the condition OF
the industry as to enable Congress to form
q Judgment as to what would be far and
equitable"